Vol. 3, No. 30

The following handbooks will arrive later this month. We are announcing them early as our newsletter will be off line the rest of November.

NEW HANDBOOK

NEW HANDBOOK
TITLE: Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
LOCATION: Handbook Area
CALL NUMBER: BF723.C5 B5 2010
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NEW HANDBOOK
TITLE: Handbook of Reading Disability Research
LOCATION: Handbook Area
CALL NUMBER: LB1050.5.H265 2011
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
Just in time for your listening pleasure while traveling to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving…

Charlottesville's public library, The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL) will be making downloadable audio books available to library patrons beginning November 22. This new service will allow patrons to download books for use on their computers and transfer the books to CDs or portable devices such as iPads or iPods.

You may preview this new service at http://swvapub.lib.overdrive.com and check out titles. You must have a JMRL library card which you can obtain at any JMRL library branches including the Gordon Avenue branch at 1500 Gordon Avenue which is the branch closest to U.Va. Beginning November 22nd, the permanent link will move to the JMRL website.

Checkouts are limited to two at a time. Checkout periods are for 7 or 14 days. At the end of the checkout period the books will be automatically "returned." Therefore, there will be no overdue fines!

Happy Thanksiving from the CLIC staff.

NAEP
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
NCES is sponsoring an advanced studies seminar on the use of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) database for education research and policy analysis, January 10-13, 2011. The main NAEP database contains nationally representative achievement scores of 4th, 8th, and 12th graders from public and non-public schools in a variety of academic subjects. The database also contains background information on the students who were assessed and their learning environment.

This seminar is aimed at faculty and advanced graduate students from colleges and universities. Education researchers and policy analysts with strong statistical skills from state and local education agencies and professional associations are welcome. Participants attending this seminar should have a solid understanding of basic statistics, including procedures required for analyzing survey data, and should have some familiarity with measurement theory.

The deadline for applications is November 30. Space is limited, so please act fast. See more information at http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=730&cid=2

If you are new to NAEP research, you may want to explore NAEP technical documentation and the restricted-use data currently available to licensed researchers.

NAEP is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

Social learning tools for the school classroom: Grades 5-18 from Jane Hart's the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) . Features software such as EdMoto, DropBox, Animoto and more.

If you are a school teacher (or a provider of social and collaboration tools for schools) and you would like to recommend a tool for the list, please do so in the comments section at the bottom of the listing, and she will add the tool to the page in the Directory.

LIBX TOOLBAR

LibX is a Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbar that allows you to quickly search the online catalog, VIRGO; Google Scholar, and other search tools. Click here for LibX installation and search documentation.

Magic Button. On a webpage or in a PDF, highlight the title of an article you want and drag and drop the selected text onto the Scholar button. The Library Toolbar will use Google Scholar and Find@UVa to take you either directly to your article or to a Find@UVa page with linking options.
TIP: Be sure you set "University of Virginia Libraries" as your Library Link in Google Scholar Preferences.

Right-Click Menu. Highlight text on the webpage and right-click to get search options in the menu. You can also drag and drop the highlighted text into the search box or onto the Scholar button.

Cues. In Amazon, the New York Times Book Review, Google and other Web sites click on the orange Rotunda to see if the U.Va. Libraries have the item.

On some pages, an ISBN, a number that identifies a particular edition of a book, may be a hyperlink that searches Virgo.

Search in the Toolbar. Search Virgo, the Find@UVa Journals List, Google Scholar or WorldCat. Put a term in the search box then use the down arrows to choose a database and what kind of search to do. Clicking the white down arrow adds another search field, handy for multiple keywords in Virgo searches.

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